One of my favorite words is a French word: sousveillance. It is the opposite of surveillance. Surveillance means to look from above; sousveillance means to look from below. In their dream of nation-states

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time. From Astonishing the Gods, Ben Okri Ben Okri is a Nigerian poet and novelist. In

Organizations cannot make you free. No man from outside can make you free; nor can organized worship, nor the immolation of yourselves for a cause, make you free; nor can forming yourselves into an

Before you go anywhere you must accept where you are. Only the journey that begins with self acceptance ends with self improvement. Vironika Tugaleva In her early twenties, Vironika’s suffering reached

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. From

No matter how sophisticated, how cynical the public may become about publicity methods, it must respond to the basic appeals, because it will always need food, crave amusement, long for beauty, respond

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. From The Four Chambered Heart, Anais Nin. Today's quote was written by a fascinating woman, Anais Nin. She was one

Let's stop for a moment and take a deep breath. Relax your shoulders and the tiny muscles around your eyes. Just let go of the tightness at the center of your head. If you haven't, please, do it and start

Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest — thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will